¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you.^(A) I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask^(B) the Father in my name,^(C) he will give you.^(D)

¹⁷ “This is what I command you: Love one another.

Persecutions Predicted

¹⁸ “If the world hates^(E) you, understand that it hated me before it hated you.